Wednesday, September 29, 2010

We'll be serving up some tech tapas to Ohio's English language arts supervisors during Thursday's fall meeting at the Ohio Resource Center. Tapas are appetizers, designed to encourage conversation. Legend has it that originally tapas were salty, to provoke thirst. We're hoping that some of the tech tapas served will make our colleagues thirsty to learn more.

On the menu board (all FREE or very low cost)Delicious: share you bookmarks, browse others by friend or topicVoicethread: interactive way to teach with images and audioWallwisher: collect feedbackJing: capture whatever's on your screenSkype: use free audio and video conferencingTwitter: microblog (keepin' it concise) to learn, share, networkNing: network securely and share resourcesGoogle Docs: collaborate on all kinds of documentsBit.ly: shorten those long URLsBlogspot: blog from an easy-to-us templateAnimoto: create video from your images

About Us

We are K-12 professionals passionate about learning together to teach students to thrive in the 21st Century. We form the Department of Teaching & Learning for West Clermont Schools, Cincinnati, OH. M.E. Steele-Pierce, PhD, is assistant superintendent for teaching & learning. Her areas of expertise are adult learning, implementation of school improvement plans, and instructional leadership. Cheryl Turner, MEd, is supervisor of instructional programs for K-5, ESL, and Title I. Her areas of expertise are early literacy, reading development, and brain-based learning. Tanny McGregor, MEd, is supervisor of instructional programs for 6-12 plus G/T, art and music. A national keynoter, she is author of Comprehension Connections (Heinemann 2007).